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Lousy

Infested with lice.

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Awful 84% connected

Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

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Awful 84% connected

Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

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Bad 84% connected

Bade.

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Bad 84% connected

Bade.

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Dirty 84% connected

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Dirty 84% connected

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Nasty 84% connected

Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

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Nasty 84% connected

Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

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Soiled 84% connected

of Soil

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Soiled 84% connected

of Soil

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Unclean 84% connected

Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.

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Unclean 84% connected

Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.

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Louse 74% connected

Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemi…

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Louse 74% connected

Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemi…

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Dirty 92% connected

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Filthy 92% connected

Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.

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Rotten 92% connected

Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.

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Stinking 92% connected

of Stink

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